@boomzilla Technically? Yes. The light rays that define the shape of the dots strikes the retinas of my eyeballs, thus fulfilling the criteria of your query.

However, can I distinguish all of them at the same time? No. At best, I can see three (adjacent in a horizontal line) because the criss-crossing gray lines blur the specific identifying characteristics of the particular dots that are outside the very small, central focus region of my field of vision but still within my peripheral vision.

I do enjoy these displays of visual quirks, and I like to analyze why they do what they do to our perceptions.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

But, thanks to intelli-scan methodology, I do have the full image in memory and can.. wait, I can't actually count all of them at once, hold on, I need to figure out where my virtual register allocation table went...

@boomzilla The range of your precision vision doesn't allow it. So your peripheral takes over, but then it's too blurred to distinguish from the gray line enough for your brain to accept it as distinct objects, then your brain adjusts for shadows and patterns, and poof. Probably more influenced by the pattern, and makes the assumption, so it copies that pattern out to the extent of the box.

So, you can see 2-3 at desk distance, but the rest are filtered out, you literally do not see them.

It's actually more amazing that your brain can predict where the pattern ends, and tricks you into thinking you see the entire box.

Just assume everything I say is satirical. I've added tags to indicate otherwise.

I can get them all if I spend enough time 'warming up' by looking at each one and then a row at a time, but there's only 11. I can't see the third on the top row even if I look directly at it. I've looked all over and I'm pretty sure there isn't an 'extra' dot in a different position.